Austria Year in Review: 2023 Economic Outlook

Good things take time, and that also applies to politics. And calmly beyond the 100-day limit in which the first interim certificates for a government are distributed. But the fact that it took until the beginning of December, 275 days after his inauguration, for Sepp Schellhorn to present his package of measures can be said to be comfortable.

Of all people, it was Schellhorn, who could never move fast enough or radical enough in the opposition. As State Secretary for de-bureaucratization and deregulation, the former “anger host” Austria Soften bureaucracy. And then this: 113 lukewarm suggestions, most of which were immediately forgotten after a press conference in which not even Schellhorn himself seemed to radiate enthusiasm for his project.